U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed the heads of four working groups on Syria, the United Nations said on Tuesday, signaling a step toward talks where warring parties are expected to discuss how to implement a roadmap for peace. "It is hoped that their outcomes...

Satellite photos taken in mid-September and obtained by IHS Jane's show Russian forces developing two additional military facilities near Syria's Mediterranean coast, Rob Munks, editor of IHS Jane's Intelligence Review, said on Tuesday. Munks said the previously undisclosed...

The U.S. military has assessed that the type of Russian aircraft in Syria is consistent with "force protection," U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday. "For the moment it is the judgment of our military and experts that the level and type represents basically force protection,"...

 Al Jabha Al Shamiya, coalition of several rebel groups, has freed a British woman and her five children who were kidnapped in the country, delivering them to British embassy through an American mediator, source in the group's media office told Zaman al-Wasl. The statement by 'The...